Arctic Frontiers 2015

APECS was again a partner of the Arctic Frontiers 2015 conference in Tromsø, Norway from 18 – 23 January 2015 with the theme "Climate and Energy" and contributed to the Young Scientist Forum of the number of activities:

Science Communication and Media Training Workshop on 20 January

Arctic Frontiers "Science for Schools" (20 - 22 January)

APECS is also organising the poster awards for the conference! So keep in mind when you are presenting a poster, that all posters of early career researchers are eligible to win an award!

Communicating science to a variety of audiences is an important skill all researchers have to learn. Whether you want to tweet about your current research project, create a podcast, give a talk to peers at a scientific conference, give an interview for the media or explaining your research to a school class, science communication is part of a researchers' everyday life. This workshop, led by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) in partnership with Arctic Frontiers and the High North Academy, introduced participants to learning how to effectively communicate their science focusing on two main parts:

1) Using Social Media to Communicate your research: Using twitter, blogs or podcasts are fun and effective ways to communicate your research. In this part of the workshop, we will be talking about how you can do this and what possibilities are out there.

2) Media Training: This part introduced participants to insights on how to communicate their science to the media. It also introduced them to the work of journalists, how they find a good scientific story and how they condense the complicated scientific research into a language that is understandable to the general public. Speakers for this part were experts in journalism/ communication and journalists.

The workshop was open to all participants of Arctic Frontiers 2015 and anyone at the UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and the Norwegian Polar Institute and was free of charge.

14:00 - 14:05

WelcomeIntroduction to the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)Speaker: Gerlis Fugmann (APECS / UiT)

14:05 - 14:10

Introduction to the High North Academy at UiTSpeaker: Ole Nicolai Aarbakke